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Four steps to enjoying a perfect family Bank Holiday afternoon!
1. Buy some bananas and milk and make some ice.
2. Watch the video together
3. Make the drink together.
4. Put the video on again and enjoy your drink in peace while the kiddies are enjoying Lizzie Witch … again and again!
Enjoy!
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This Sunday Challenge introduces children to polystyrene and suggests ways to make models. It is a great project for children from six upwards with adult supervision.
Polystyrene is fun to work with and building sculptures like this one teaches children to appreciation the importance of light and shadow and movement.
The inspiration for the featured image came from an amazing sculpture by artist Danilo Fiorucci entitled : LO SPAZIO ASSENTE . ( The ascending space).
To view this sculpture and the Jumbles experimenting with polystyrene watch the video below:
Festa della Padella. (The feast of the Pan) this year is from the 24th to the 28th of August.
This, the largest frying pan in the world can fry 2 tons of fish an hour!
Eighteen burners powered by 6 gas cylinders heat 5.8 tons of oil.
At this festa you can enjoy a great menu of fish from Lake Trasimeno plus music and a lively street market. There are also concerts on both nights from 22.00.
The feasting however only starts as dusk approaches and continues in candlelight when the scene becomes magical.
On the menu is a wide variety of fish some of which is cooked in the pan.
Yesterday Geirgie and Alfie went picking figs.
They enjoyed eating the rugs fresh from the tree but picked so many that they needed to find a way to keep them. To preserve them.
Maisie suggested cooking them in pear juice and Marsala wine.
Thet decided to do this but wanted to make it a bit different. To experiment.
Georgie really likes walnuts so they added a handful and Alfie likes hot spiced so they added a sprinkle of Peperoncino which is like chilli pepper.
Then into a very big pan went a small wine glass of Marsala wine, an individual small carton of pear juice, a sprinkle of chilli pepper and a small handful of chopped walnuts.
Then the figs were added and everything was simmered for fifteen minutes and left to cool.
Once the Figs had cooled down they bottled them and put them in the fridge.
Delicious!
For more recipes visit our channel and the Cook with Maisie playlist,
The Jumbkes use the lake as their inspiration for making a blue picture .
Click the link below for the Challenge.
The weekly SUNDAY CHALLENGE from Jumble House. Colour wash. Inspiration comes from a lake scene. Suitable for all ages even pre school as the project can be adapted and extended. Adult supervision is always recommended.
The ‘challenge’ this week is for children to adapt the process demonstrated and create something different. The idea behind the Sunday programmes is that ideas are given as a stimulus, we hope that children will not just copy but will experiment using the techniques demonstrated.
The focus of the Challenges can be art and craft, design, design and technology, story writing or games. Whatever the activity the aim is to develop a child’s creative thinking skill.
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Resources: paints by GIOTTO
paper by FABRIANO (Ruvido/rough grain) purchased at MARINO FA MERCATO. MAGIONE
Music: Royalty Free Music from PREMIUM BEAT.COM
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Lizzie Witch saw this as an excellent opportunity to teach us all about evaporation and steam and condensation.
To watch the programme just click on this link (and please subscribe to our channel):- Evaporation Programme
Lizzie left us with a challenge and hear a a couple more:
1. Water evaporates more quickly when it is warm than when it is cool. Can you think of a way to,prove that this statement is true?
2. Take two identical pieces of cloth. Soak them in water and then squeeze the water out. Place one in a sealed plastic bag and spread the other out on the floor in a sunny place. What do you think will happen by the same time tomorrow?
Check every couple of hours, record what you see and explain the results.
Part one of the Sunday Challenge programmes on flying machines.
Did you know that the first plane with an engine was a biplane ?
Bi Planes are planes with two wings, one over the other. They have very good uplift but the ‘drag’ is much greater than with the more modern planes so they are much slower. The very first plane with an engine was a BiPlane.
Freddie Jumble is very interested in planes and so is Judi. Her father was in the airforce and later in the Royal Observer Corps.
As a child she learnt how to recognise lots of aeroplanes and later Judi learnt how to fly gliders. ( planes without engines) .
Here she is at the controls.
Watch the video to see how to make your very own model : Flying Machines. Bi Planes
Lizzie demonstrates the scientific concept of diffusion in her unique and persuasive manner.
You just can’t help but understand and learn!
Follow the link below for the programme .
Is it Magic or is it Science?
We never know when Lizzie is around but you can guarantee that something will go wrong and that she will make a lot of mess!
It is also guaranteed that she she will make learning basic scientific concepts very magical for young audiences
AND that this is one series of children’s programmes that adults won’t mind watching too!
Lizzie has a glass jar containing a very weird assortment of food.
Is she going to cook something?
Will she make them disappear ?
Will she say a magic spell and change them into a cake or a frog or ……?
Click on this link to watch the video. Maybe you will find out ! Maybe you won’t ! But if you don’t try you will never know!
Fun Science With Lizzie Witch. Food preservation.
What’s Georgie doing?
She is updating her Travel Journal !
Georgie likes to keep a journal of the places she has visited. Its fun to do and great to share with friends.
Every time Georgie goes away on holiday she starts a new journal. Her journal is like a diary. It is a record of where she has been, what she has seen, meals, weather, friends ……. just about anything and everything !
Sometimes Georgie writes in the journal but many of the pages are filled with pictures and things stuck in.
During the day Georgie will collect ‘memories’ and then later stick them into her journal. A memory might be an empty sugar packet from a bar they stopped at for a drink. Or a receipt from a train ride or restaurant or entrance to a zoo or pleasure park. Maybe an advertisement from a festival or the business card from a hotel. A sweet wrapper, a postcard, a shell from the beach.
Georgie is never bored! On a journey or sightseeing trip she is always looking for something to write about or a ‘memory’ to stick into in her journal. She takes photographs too so she can add these when she gets back home.
Her journal is very useful if they go to the same place another time because it contains useful information like how long it took to get there and the restaurants they liked or didn’t like and the festivals and weather and the contact details of friends they made.
At the moment Georgie is at home but it’s the summer holidays and so she is keeping a journal of what she has done each day. Yesterday was the last day of her village festa so this morning she is sticking in the little poster to remind her and jotting down what she ate and the people she saw and the funny things that happened.
Creative Learning for Young Children 